Affordability Program Leader

Medica's Affordability Program is accountable for developing and driving strategies that target annual savings through execution of enterprise-wide initiatives and the implementation of long-term sustainable solutions. Our Program Leader is directly responsible for partnering with cross-functional leadership and key stakeholders in order to develop and implement initiatives across the organization.

This Program Leader is a trusted advisor who serves as a key contributor to the Affordability Program design, build and implementation while serving as an Affordability subject matter expert and main point of contact for senior leaders across the organization.

Key Accountabilities:

• Contribute to initial and annual assessment of Affordability program maturity; evaluate and assess the Affordability program's strength, weaknesses, and opportunities, and develop an annual Affordability program work plan to ensure continuous improvement
• Develop and implement a structured and disciplined approach to intakes, assessments, prioritization, execution, and reporting outcomes of Affordability initiatives. Collaborates with Affordability team members and internal stakeholders to inform the approach
• Develop and maintain working knowledge of subject matter related to assigned Affordability initiatives
• Collaborate with Affordability initiative executive owners and working teams to establish key performance measures related to projected savings and outcomes; monitor key performance measures
• Facilitate initial vetting of potential opportunities identified through analytics, internal stakeholder feedback, or review of industry best practices
• Partner with and support Affordability initiative owners to advance business cases through enterprise processes to attain appropriate approvals and necessary funding

This position will require periodic onsite presence at our Minnetonka, MN & Madison, WI offices.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience
• 10+ years of applicable work experience in health insurance, health care delivery or related field
• Advanced Project Management and Project Leadership experience with demonstrated ability to manage enterprise-level initiatives
• Demonstrated experience leveraging data to help inform decisions and actions
• Experience building and implementing enterprise-wide programs and/or standards required

Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to influence within the organization and obtain details needed by senior leaders to create, implement and execute strategies
• Ability to coordinate with internal and external stakeholders, representing the organization
• Strong Analytical, communication, and collaborative skills
• Ability to actively influence and drive discussions toward resolution in a way that shows good judgment and decisiveness
• Ability to build strategic relationships
• Setting and Managing Priorities
• Ability to build presentations for executive audiences

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)